SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant. London: Constable & Co Ltd, [1930].

2 volumes, 8vo (226 x 149 mm). (A touch of marginal toning, a few occasional light spots.) 20th-century half green crushed levant gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut, stamp-signed by Bayntun (spines lightly sunned, a touch of wear to extremities). Provenance: Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard (1886-1959) English Antarctic explorer (presentation inscription).

Later edition. PRESENTATION COPY, TWICE INSCRIBED BY SHAW TO CHERRY-GARRARD on the half-title of vol. I: "Inscribed to Apsley Cherry-Garrard G. Bernard Shaw" and on the half-title of vol. II: "To Apsley Cherry-Garrard G. Bernard Shaw." Shaw was the friend and neighbor of Cherry-Garrard, and he encouraged the explorer to write his memoir of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole of 1910-1913. As its unacknowledged editor, Shaw suggested the title of the resulting classic of exploration literature, The Worst Journey in the World. First published in 1898, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant was a controversial short story collection, intended by Shaw to both force the audience to face unpleasant facts in the 3 plays in vol. I before mollifying them with the 4 pleasant comedies in vol. II. A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY.

Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio

SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant. London: Constable & Co Ltd, [1930].